“A prayer offered without intent (Kavanah), is like a body without a soul.” When the rabbis taught us that lesson, they were encouraging us that when we recite our personal and public prayers, rather ...

The first time I heard “Avinu Malkeinu,” I was at the top of Arthur’s Seat, a dead volcano in the center of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. The climb to the top and back is 2 miles. It was earlier ...

There is a trick question that teachers have been using on their classes for many, many years. When studying the Avinu Malkeinu prayer, the teacher (myself included) would ask, 'How many Avinu ...

Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center Composer Rafi Biton has long believed in the power of music, ...

Jerusalem Post / Diaspora 40 South African rabbis unite to sing Rosh Hashanah prayer and go viral The project included creating a video that showed 40 of South Africa's Rabbanim and Chazanim come ...

David Chevan slid into the season of repentance, up the neck of his bass guitar. Chevan was knocking on heaven’s door, launching into a prayer that Jews say repeatedly when we confess our sins and ...

JTA — The first time 6-year-old Bibi Shapiro found out just how widely viewed the video of him singing “Avinu Malkeinu” had been, he was sitting on his mother’s lap in Australia being beamed into Yom ...